Authors have used wordplay in their writing for a long time. Wordplay is a witty or clever verbel exchange or a play on words. It is simply an author playing with words, to help entertain or explain. It helps express feelings, thoughts, and ideas that the author has. Lewis Carroll's joy for children lead him to the way he used word play to help entertain kids. There are many different types of wordplay including personification, syntax, alliteration, assonance, parody, repitition, puns, and diction. In writing wordplay effects how poeple interpret the writing and the authors true meaning.
Authors use wordplay often to make their writing more entertaining. Many young childrens book use wordplay like repitition, alliteration, assonance and personification to make the book more enjoyable for kids. An example of this is P.D. Eastmans book Go, Dog. Go! The alliteration starts in the title. Lewis Carroll did this in his books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass. One example of lewis Carrolls wordplay that children could easily pick up on, was his parody of "Twinkle, Twinke , Little star".
As you can see wordplay has many different applications to make writing more interesting and fun to read. Lewis Carroll and P.D. Eastman are only two of the numerous authors that use wordplay. Wordplay helps enhance the writing and really makes teh peice of writing the authors.
Authors use wordplay often to make their writing more entertaining. Many young childrens book use wordplay like repitition, alliteration, assonance and personification to make the book more enjoyable for kids. An example of this is P.D. Eastmans book Go, Dog. Go! The alliteration starts in the title. Lewis Carroll did this in his books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass. One example of lewis Carrolls wordplay that children could easily pick up on, was his parody of "Twinkle, Twinke , Little star".
As you can see wordplay has many different applications to make writing more interesting and fun to read. Lewis Carroll and P.D. Eastman are only two of the numerous authors that use wordplay. Wordplay helps enhance the writing and really makes teh peice of writing the authors.